GEORGE H. MEYER born near Osnabruck, Hanover, Prussia
History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821.
Pg. 246, 247
GEORGE HENRY MEYER, president of the German- American Insurance Co., of Pittsburgh, was born near Osnabruck, Hanover, Prussia, Sept. 5, 1829, and is a son CHRISTIAN and KATRINA (SCHUMACHER) MEYER.When he was 17 he came to Pittsburgh.For 25 years he was engaged in contracting and building, and was ten years a partner, with six others, in the manufacture of glass.MR. MEYER was one of the original incorporators of the German-American Insurance Co...MR. MEYER was married in 1852 to ELIZA GUSTVOGEL, who was born in the same locality as himself, and they have five living children: GEORGE, a builder; FREDERICK F., a glass-presser; ELIZABETH; WILLIAM F., a member of a wholesale grocery firm, and MARGARET M.